Artie Shaw
What a Creep
Sonia Mansfield
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Season 31, Episode 4
Artie Shaw
The lovely and fantastic Simone O. Elias, author of “Old Films, Young Eyes: A Teenage Take on Hollywood's Golden Age,” joins host Sonia Mansfield to talk about Artie Shaw.
Artie Shaw played the jazz clarinet and was a big-band leader who reigned supreme as one of the kings of swing with his recordings of "Begin the Beguine," "Lady Be Good," and "Star Dust" in the late 1930s and 40s. He was also an abusive husband, who was married 8 times, ANNNND, he dropped some names at the House of Un-American Activities in the 1950s. What a creep.
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| 1:03.7 | Welcome to What a Creep podcast that talks about creeps of the past and the present. |
| 1:08.0 | My name is Sonia Mansfield. |
| 1:09.7 | And joining me for this episode is the lovely |
| 1:12.1 | fantastic Simone Elias, author of old films, young eyes. Oh, Sonia, thank you for having me. |
| 1:20.4 | I love this show so much. I've binged pretty much every episode. I can't wait to talk about |
| 1:25.4 | creeps. I know. This is going to be so fun. We're going to |
| 1:28.8 | talk more about what Simone is up to at the end of the show. So stick around for the non-creep. |
| 1:34.9 | Yeah, stick around for the non-creep. We're going to be talking about Artie Shaw. This was your |
| 1:40.3 | pick. Yes, because as you'll see later,'s a little twist in um me picking him but i |
| 1:46.6 | would save that yeah we love we love a twist we love a twist but first we have a few podcasting |
| 1:53.7 | duties i must perform number one we use salty language on the show if you don't like that |
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